CHARTS

2020 Draft Prospects - After the Combine

The NFL Combine, also known as the Underwear Olympics, has completed. Pro Days and mindless speculation are still to follow, but you can get some charts now!

Note: In addition to the normal big board rankings, I have now begun to scrape information from a seven round mock draft, as well. I’ll let you know more about those when I show those charts.

These charts are filterable. Click a state to see the only those prospects, or check out prospects within a particular conference. Feel free to maximize the charts using the button on the lower right.

Here’s another “big board” chart showing the individual prospects and their change in rank over time so far. You can select states to view them, and you can also highlight players. For some interesting rises and falls, check out Tua Tagoviloa, Isaiah Simmons, and Mehki Becton:

Next up is my first Mock Draft chart! It’s measured slightly differently, since it uses the actual Leagify draft point values instead of the big board values.

Here are the big board values:

  • 01 - 10 : 35 points
  • 11 - 25 : 30 points
  • 26 - 35 : 25 points
  • 36 - 59 : 20 points
  • 60 - 70 : 15 points
  • 71 - 100 : 10 points
  • 101 - 120 : 8 points
  • 121 - 150 : 7 points
  • 151 - 180 : 6 points
  • 181 - 250 : 5 points
  • 251 - 300 : 2 points
  • 301 - 500 : 1 point

Mock draft values are a little different:

  • Top Pick: 40 Points
  • Picks 2-10: 35 Points
  • Picks 11-20: 30 Points
  • Picks 21-32: 25 Points
  • Picks 33-48: 20 Points
  • Picks 49-64: 15 Points
  • Round 3: 10 Points
  • Round 4: 8 Points
  • Round 5: 7 Points
  • Round 6: 6 Points
  • Round 7: 5 Points

Without further ado, here’s the first chart!

Next up is a line graph showing the draft variance of the players that were selected. For example, if a player is considered to be the best player in the draft, and he is selected with the first pick, his variance is zero. However if the second-best player gets mocked at pick 32, that player’s variance is 30. Similarly, if the 32nd-best player gets picked second, that players variance is -30. Often this variance is based on percieved positional need, rumors, or some other sort of tomfoolery. From the data I’m seeing, it looks like Jake Fromm may have taken the biggest tumble.

The big board rankings came from DraftTek’s Big Board, which started posting 2020 prospect information in May, and the most current rankings are from March 7th. Only the value of the player’s primary position was considered. The data is scraped, cleaned, and mushed together with a variety of code, which is available here for viewing, if you’re into that sort of thing.

The mock draft comes from DraftTek’s Mock Draft, which is a seven round mock draft. Only the most recent draft from March 4th is represented in the data, but I do have other mocks that go back about a month. This data is scraped, cleaned, and mushed, as well, and the source code is available here.